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Maharashtra assembly suspends 19 Opposition MLAs till December 31

MUMBAI: The

Maharashtra state assembly

has suspended 19 Opposition Congress-NCP MLAs till December 31 for creating ruckus and disturbing finance minister

Sudhir Mungantiwar

while he was presenting state budget for the year 2017-18 on March 18. They will not be allowed to enter the Mumbai and Nagpur legislature premises till December 31.

The suspension proposal was moved by parliamentary affairs minister

Girish Bapat

in the lower house and it was passed by majority. Opposition leader

Radha Krishna Vikhe Patil

said that the move is against the Constitution and walked out of the assembly.

Suspended MLAs

are: Jitendra Awhad, Amar Kale, Abdul Sattar, Bhaskar Jadhav, Vijay Wadettiwar, Madhusudan Kendre, Harshwardhan Sapkal, Kunal Patil, Jaykumar Gore, Sangram Thopate, Deepak Chavan, Rahul Jagtap, Datta Bharne, Sangram Jagtap, Amit Zanak, Narahari Thevar, Vaibhav Pichad, Avadhit Tatkare and DP Sawant.
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